Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Identifier: earthitsinhabita386recl (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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THE RHINE AND THE MOSELLE. 195 as Marburg, 60 miles away. The thick tufa beds of the valley of Brohl supply millstones, which are exported even to America. The huge lava stream of Kieder Mendig, to the south of the lake, furnishes excellent building stones, and has been quarried from the most remote age. The brewers of the neighbourhood have converted some of the abandoned quarries into beer cellars. The volcanoes of the Eifel, with the exception of the Aspenkippel, a basaltic cone near Giessen, are the only ones of Germany which have preserved their craters intact. The Eoderberg, near Bonn, is the northernmost of these volcanoes. The " Seven Mountains," or Siebengebirge, which face it, are of igneous origin too. Fig. 113.—The Siehengebirge, or Seven Mountains. Scale 1 : 133,000.
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2 Miles. but are without volcanic vents. They are composed of trachyte and basalt, and though gf inferior elevation, their culminating summit, the Oelberg, only attaining a height of 1,520 feet, they have become famous on account of their picturesque scenery and their legends. On the Drachenfels (Dragon's Rock), which rises boldly above the floods of the Ehine, Siegfried killed the monster which guarded the treasures of the Nibelungs. Schistose plateaux, intersected by numerous tributaries of the Rhine, extend to the north and east of this volcanic region as far as the hills of Hesse. The Westerwald (2,155 feet), between the Lahn and the Sieg, has partly been robbed

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